SNP president Dane Cankovic told Hina about 50,000 signatures had been collected in the Bosnian Serb entity to date.
"The drive will continue until the realisation of the final goal, which is a free Republika Srpska. We will submit the collected signatures to the RS parliament and simultaneously acquaint international organisations and politicians with the will expressed by the Serb people not to live in the imposed Bosnia and Herzegovina," he said.
The drive is being carried out under the motto "Hymn, Coat-Of-Arms, Flag - This is Us" and citizens are being sold RS flags at a symbolic price of five euros.
Serbian Radical Party president and member of the entity parliament Milanko Mihajlica today urged RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik to officially launch in the RS parliament an initiative so that Bosnian Serbs could go to a referendum.
The Serb Movement of Nongovernmental Associations SPONA today publicly invited RS officials, political parties and citizens to support the initiative for the referendum on independence and leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina which "favours centralisation and unitarisation to the detriment of RS,", they said in a statement.
"Given the international community's proposals for settling the status of Kosovo and the referendum (on independence) in Montenegro, RS citizens too have the legitimacy to ask for the realisation of their right to self-determination, which is guaranteed by international conventions and the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina," read the statement.
The Bosnian Muslim caucus in the RS parliament's Council of Peoples said in a statement that only the Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly could call a referendum in Bosnia at which citizens would say if they were in favour of the separation or the abolition of RS.
"We are confident that the majority of Bosnian citizens would opt for the abolition of Republika Srpska, which would represent the final justice for all the victims of the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina," the caucus said, protesting against separatist ideas.